Poland's Car Sales Skidded,
Hurt by Less Volume at Daewoo

By

Darek Klimczak Special to The Wall Street Journal

Updated April 20, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

WARSAW -- New car sales in Poland, one of Europe's largest car markets, are on the most sustained slide in 10 years, owing mainly to lower sales at Daewoo-FSO , the troubled South Korean car maker's European hub, according to figures released Wednesday.

Car sales in Poland declined 6.2% in the first quarter from a year earlier, according to March figures released by Samar, Poland's leading auto-industry research company.